application management

One of the more rewarding parts of my job is working with our team on customer stories. I always feel like a great case study has so much external and internal value, that they should be shared as widely as possible. So, after just a few moments on our site and YouTube channel, I’ve collated a few stand outs to share in the first Dynatrace “Customer Corner” blog post. Nordstrom: From … read more

Next month will mark the 47th anniversary of Apollo 13. The film that recounts the story is a favorite of mine, probably because it so masterfully captures the incredible suspense, fear, and hope felt by people everywhere, that I personally recall very well. I also know how an organization’s digital transformation can generate similar reactions! Apollo 13 was likely a casualty of the space program’s incredibly aggressive schedule. NASA, with U.S. … read more

Since I started my Share Your PurePath program a little over a year ago, I have received over 200 Dynatrace sessions containing performance data of small, medium, and large applications. All struggled with the same problem: scalability and performance issues that resulted in dissatisfied users, adding more hardware/resources in an attempt to mitigate the problem, and war rooms for those apps that have already been deployed. For apps still in … read more

In the first part of this series, I shared practical advice on how to automatically deploy Dynatrace Agents into distributed enterprise applications using Ansible in less than 60 seconds. While we had conveniently assumed its presence back then, we will today address the automated installation of our Dynatrace Application Monitoring solution comprising Clients, Collectors and a Server into a production environment. The Dynatrace Application Monitoring Architecture An installation of our … read more